History
Claremont High School is located in Claremont, California, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. Claremont High is just a few miles from the consortium of seven Claremont Colleges. Within the Claremont Unified School District, Claremont High is the comprehensive high school, along with seven elementary schools, a school for orthopedically handicapped students, one intermediate school, one continuation high school, one community day school, and one adult school.
Claremont High School serves 2,400 students from a predominantly middle to upper-class college community. The students speak over 20 languages at home. The student community is 45% White, 29% Hispanic, 13% Asian and Pacific Islander, and 8% African-American. Over 96% are fluent English speakers. Claremont High serves approximately 35 orthopedically handicapped students from this and surrounding school districts.
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